Saturday. Finally. The past week I was neck-deep in errands and also shelled out a chunk of munny for my dad's medical needs. Today I finally get the chance to just fix the studio and resume proper shop work. Now I need to raise more funds for the continuing medical expenses plus everything else that need upgrading and replenishing (on top of getting the monthly bills paid on time).

I'm turning my holiday gift-giving into a good cause. I picked CARA Welfare Philippines as the recipient of donations I will make from my gift list, as well as the beneficiary of one of my fund-raising art sale projects (The plan is to split the earnings 50-50 so I make some and they get some. I need to make some so I can do more stuff to be able to keep helping them - ssshhh don't tell them yet I'm still in the planning stage). (Of course it will mean a lot of cat paintings.)

My work for the weekend (and on to the coming week) includes:

1) designing holiday pieces that will be printed on blank cards, note cards, and gift tags 2) updating the Etsy shop with revised and new listings 3) preparing the items for Etsy listing (which means photo shoots, photo edits, write-ups, uploads, spreading the word) 4) working on a small commission and getting that ready to ship5) re-wilding old pieces so they can come home to the Impossible Garden & the Wildforest (they will be listed on Etsy too)6) drafting the design for a 2018 calendar (to be listed on Etsy too)7) drafting the poem chapbook that will be self-published (and made available for purchase in time for the holidays) before the year ends (to fulfill a promise to myself at the beginning of this year)(Nothing grand. Just a simple print of maybe a baker's dozen of pieces, listed on Etsy.)8) drafting the initial design and layout for the Brooklyn Library's Sketchbook Project (and letting it steep until I start actual work on it in December)

9) designing a blank journal into an art journal and putting it up for sale, ready to be written on, like a magical grimoire lost and found in an enchanted forest

10) figuring out how to fix the garage so I can have a few weekend pop-ups in November and December where people can go to shop for gifts (which means printing more cards and stuff and all that. It will also be almost like a mini-exhibit.)